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flllorncy Patented Mar. 27, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

Application November 3, 1932, Serial No. 641,086

This invention relates to a heel mainly designed for shoes for women, the general object of the invention being to make the major portion of the heel of hard rubber or the like with a Wooden insert in the upper part of the heel and a replaceable rubber or leather lift at the lower end of the heel.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination 1 and arrangement of the several parts to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like numerals denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional .view through 10 the improved heel.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the lift. Fig. 4 is a section on line 44 of Fig. 1. In this drawing, the numeral 1 indicates the body of the heel which is preferably formed of hard rubber or the like and the numeral 2 indicates an insert of substantially conical shape and. preferably of wood, placed in the upper part of the heel and the lower end of the heel is formed 0 with a recess 3 opening out through the lower end. A circularly grooved pin 4 is embedded in the heel 1 and has a pointed end extending into the recess 3 to hold a lift 5 in position, this lift being either of rubber or leather, and is formed 5 with an opening to vreceive that part of the pin which projects into the recess. As will be seen in the drawing, the lift is provided with a wide lower portion which conforms to the shape of the lower end of the heel so as to entirely cover said lower end, and a reduced portion which fits in the recess. The reduced part is formed with a groove 6 which alines with a groove 7 in the front wall of the recess when the lift is in position and these two grooves provide an opening, permitting the escape of air from the recess while the lift is being inserted.

The lift may be made of rubber or leather, and it can be easily removed and substituted by a new one whenever necessary, and such lift can be manufactured inexpensively as it has no metal parts attached thereto. The old lift can be removed and a new one substituted therefor very easily and quickly and without the aid of a shoemaker. As the lift is forced into the recess and the lower end of the pin 4 enters the hole in the lift, the material forming the reduced part of the lift is forced outwardly against the sides of the recess as the hole in the reduced part of the lift would be made of smaller diameter than the diameter of the pin.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

. It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended. claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is:--

1. A shoe heel comprising a body having a re- 50 cess in its lower end, a pin embedded in the body and having a pointed end extending into the recess said pin being circularly grooved, a lift for fitting over the lower end of the heel, a reduced part on the lift having an opening therein for receiving that part of the pin which extends into the recess the walls of the-opening being formed of the material from which the lift is composed and contacting the pin.

2. A heel of the class described comprising a body formed of hard material, the lower end of the body having a recess therein formed with a vertical groove in one wall thereof, a circularly grooved pin embedded in the heel and having its pointed part extending into the recess, a lift fitting over the lower end of the heel and a reduced part on the lift extending into the recess and having an opening therein for receiving the pointed end of the pin.

ELMER MILLER. GUSTAV C. WENDT. 

